Crossword-Solution: PERCALE 7 letters, 41 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Jean's conscience commanded her instead to hang her riding-clothes in the closet and wear striped percale and a gingham apron, which she hated; and to sweep and dust and remember not to whistle, and to look sympathetic,--which she was not, particularly; and to ask her Aunt Ella frequently if she felt any better, and if there was anything Jean could do for her.

She rose and went into the house and to her room, and changed the hated striped percale for her riding-clothes.

This had called forth some bitter comments from his parents: What right had he to comfort and to something approaching luxury before he had cleared off his debts? "I am reproached for the furnishings of my rooms," he wrote to his sister Laure, "but all the furniture belonged to me before the catastrophe came! I have not bought a single new piece! The wall covering of blue percale which has caused such an outcry was in my chamber at the printing house.

Margaret had a distinct impression that not a movable article therein was in place, and not an available inch of tables or chairs unused, before her eyes reached the tall figure of the woman in a gown of chocolate percale, who was frying cutlets at the big littered range.

The Secretary began to spell out in a loud voice what follows: “Two dressing-gowns, one in percale, the other in striped silk, six roubles.” “What does this mean?” said Pougatcheff, frowning.